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Title: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: housecall on November 15, 2008, 02:24:43 PM
Just heard it on my car radio that JR has been sent to the (Utah Flash) D league team today.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: celticmaestro on November 15, 2008, 04:27:16 PM
I haven't seen or heard this elsewhere. Any confirmation?

Not that it matters, I'd be glad if he did go down there.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: Roy Hobbs on November 15, 2008, 04:32:20 PM
I haven't seen or heard this elsewhere. Any confirmation?

Not that it matters, I'd be glad if he did go down there.

Yeah, it's official.  It's linked on the front page, via the Globe.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: celticmaestro on November 15, 2008, 04:37:21 PM
I haven't seen or heard this elsewhere. Any confirmation?

Not that it matters, I'd be glad if he did go down there.

Yeah, it's official.  It's linked on the front page, via the Globe.

So it is. Missed that.

It definitely makes sense, hopefully he can develop his game further down there and come back next year and help us the way we hoped he would have helped this year. He was behind Walker in pre-season and obviously still is.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: Finkelskyhook on November 15, 2008, 05:01:18 PM
Send Walker and Pruitt down there with him.  Pruitt to stay in shape since Rivers has him buried and Walker to get some humility to go with his talent.

Good move to get Giddens down there, anyway.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: billysan on November 15, 2008, 05:09:03 PM
Send Walker and Pruitt down there with him.  Pruitt to stay in shape since Rivers has him buried and Walker to get some humility to go with his talent.

Good move to get Giddens down there, anyway.
Walker needs the minutes to be sure. I think he goes in a short time to join Giddens. Pruitt needs to see a few minutes on the court IMO and should stay with the Celtics. 8)
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: housecall on November 15, 2008, 05:49:49 PM
Send Walker and Pruitt down there with him.  Pruitt to stay in shape since Rivers has him buried and Walker to get some humility to go with his talent.

Good move to get Giddens down there, anyway.
Walker needs the minutes to be sure. I think he goes in a short time to join Giddens. Pruitt needs to see a few minutes on the court IMO and should stay with the Celtics. 8)
Maybe soon
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: Andy Jick on November 15, 2008, 07:50:23 PM
i hope he becomes trade fodder...
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: xmuscularghandix on November 16, 2008, 01:43:21 PM
Send Walker and Pruitt down there with him.  Pruitt to stay in shape since Rivers has him buried and Walker to get some humility to go with his talent.

Good move to get Giddens down there, anyway.
Walker needs the minutes to be sure. I think he goes in a short time to join Giddens. Pruitt needs to see a few minutes on the court IMO and should stay with the Celtics. 8)
Maybe soon

scal was the first man off the bench last night. so maybe pruitts time is coming.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: hwangjini_1 on November 17, 2008, 07:43:16 PM
Send Walker and Pruitt down there with him.  Pruitt to stay in shape since Rivers has him buried and Walker to get some humility to go with his talent.

Good move to get Giddens down there, anyway.
Walker needs the minutes to be sure. I think he goes in a short time to join Giddens. Pruitt needs to see a few minutes on the court IMO and should stay with the Celtics. 8)
Maybe soon

unless, given rondo's shooting woes, the coaches are grooming scal to be the backup pg.  ;)

scal was the first man off the bench last night. so maybe pruitts time is coming.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: BudweiserCeltic on November 17, 2008, 07:46:26 PM
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2008/11/16/giddens_eager_for_d_league/

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"I can stay here and work out all day and not be in the rotation," said Giddens Friday night, when he was inactive for the loss to the Nuggets. "Or I can go down there and make myself better so they'll want me anyway. I look at it as a positive.

"I work out hard every day. You feel like you're getting stronger and faster, but you don't get to go out there and apply it.

"Going down there to the D-League will give me an opportunity to apply it. It will make me a better player."
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: cornbreadsmart on November 17, 2008, 08:26:38 PM
cool. he ain't playin .so for us fans at least now there will be something else to follow.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: libermaniac on November 18, 2008, 12:11:38 PM
Not that I think this is a bad move, as he wasn't doing anything for Boston, but it's not going to help him get better.  JR Giddens spent 5 years in college, his skills are there.  He led the Mountain West in scoring and rebounds last year.  It's not like he has to polish his skills.  What he is lacking, for some reason (perhaps he's just not smart at all), is that he is lost in the Celtics offense.  Unless the Flash run the same sets as the Celtics (and perhaps they do), I just don't see his stint down there helping him out, unless he's lost so much confidence that he just needs to regain it.   
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: CelticsWhat35 on November 18, 2008, 12:53:22 PM
The Flash' first preseason game is this Saturday, so hopefully someone who lives out there will get to see the game and report back how he Giddens looked.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: Chris on November 18, 2008, 01:51:57 PM
Send Walker and Pruitt down there with him.  Pruitt to stay in shape since Rivers has him buried and Walker to get some humility to go with his talent.

Good move to get Giddens down there, anyway.

Pruitt will be playing before long.  Clearly Doc and Ainge like him, but Doc has always made a point (to great success) to not put young guys out there before they are ready.  I expect him to be joining the rotation in some form by January, if not sooner.

For Walker, I don't see how playing in the D-league against inferior competition will teach him humility.  I think it would be more likely boost his ego, since he would likely be one of the more dominant players down there.

And for the record, I actually think in general Walker is a very humble person.  From all I have heard and read about him, he is very down to earth off the court.  Of course he is perhaps a bit (or more than that) overconfident ON the court.  But I think the best way to rectify that is to have him sit on the bench, and have Pierce put him in his place in practice.

Anyways, I think this was a no-brainer with Giddens.  There was no chance he was playing up here, and he could certainly benefit from playing more.  Not to mention, he is the guy, who might be able to benefit from some off the floor humility that the D-league can provide.  Just to show him why he needs to work so hard to stay in the NBA.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: 2short on November 19, 2008, 06:37:11 AM
Giddens will benefit from D league.  Pruitt should start getting some minutes here and there, as long as the defense he showed in preseason is still present and that pretty outside shot he should get rotation time by the end of the year.  IF he keeps the turnovers down, I don't see Sam back in anyway.
Walker I think can help the team THIS year, PP has any time off for injury I'd honestly like to see walker with the starters.   ;D  Now I know this won't happen but he has the size and attitude.
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: makaveli on November 19, 2008, 08:58:56 AM
Giddens looks a lot like The Rock
Title: Re: Giddens goes to D league today !
Post by: Atzar on November 19, 2008, 09:47:22 AM
Giddens will benefit from D league.  Pruitt should start getting some minutes here and there, as long as the defense he showed in preseason is still present and that pretty outside shot he should get rotation time by the end of the year.  IF he keeps the turnovers down, I don't see Sam back in anyway.
Walker I think can help the team THIS year, PP has any time off for injury I'd honestly like to see walker with the starters.   ;D  Now I know this won't happen but he has the size and attitude.

Doesn't have the defense yet... I think many of the starting SF's in this league, at this point, would torch him.  I wasn't impressed by his lateral quickness on defense in the preseason.  He was consistently letting guys get baseline or drive by him.  The Celtics' team defense would bail him out some, of course, but I'd like to be comfortable that he could hold his own before he caught some significant minutes.